Sourcing Downloads

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Wed May 18, 2005 3:07 pm

Making things downloadable. Ok, so I have a file, saved in my angelfire webshell, and I want to make it downloadable from elsewhere. What is the html (or other) code I need to enter in the body of the "elsewhere" site to make this possible?
Many thanks
G

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Wed May 18, 2005 4:14 pm

Don't think so. Just provide the full web address of the file, and the user's browser should automatically offer to download it.

Be careful though, Angelfire has a bandwidth limit. Your site could get blocked pretty quickly if its a popular file

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Fri May 20, 2005 7:49 am

wouldn't a simple anchor href (<a href= ) would do it, as long as you provide the "absolute" path to the file with the "http:" and so on

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:46 am

It works, to a degree. Thing is, when I do that, It automatically opens wndows media player to dl the file. Is there no way I can bring up the option simply to save the file?

tom the terribl · Post by **tom the terribl** » Sat May 21, 2005 12:28 am

Downloads

Do you mean maps or mods or siegelets?

Most sites have these but because your request is vague I can't specifically answer to you.

You also need to be a member to download from most sites but http://www.dsedit.net is an open source mod site.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Sat May 21, 2005 5:17 am

Maybe you just pressed Open instead of saving it in your browser

If it's just media files that won't work, you can try bundling it into a ZIP file.

Denethorn · Post by **Denethorn** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:07 pm

To save it or stream it is a decision made by the browser. It'd possibly be in your browser download settings, depending on what browser you use.

I use Firefox which is very flexible about these things

IE might not be so friendly.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Sun May 22, 2005 3:10 am

IE allows you to choose Open or Save too.

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Sun May 22, 2005 4:49 am

[QUOTE=Denethorn]To save it or stream it is a decision made by the browser. It'd possibly be in your browser download settings, depending on what browser you use.

I use Firefox which is very flexible about these things

IE might not be so friendly.[/QUOTE]

I'm using Mozilla. I'll try packaging it as a Zip file though. Cheers Rookie Rookie

giles337 · Post by **giles337** » Sun May 22, 2005 5:10 am

Yup, Zipping it worked

Now I just need to find some free web storage with decent space/bandwidth limits

Any suggestions?

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Sun May 22, 2005 7:15 am

I pwn.

Lacking any knowledge with PHP and only having an elementary knowledge with HTML and websites, I'm not too familiar with these things, but BroadPhase might be good.

There is a way to use Gmail for webspace using PHP, but since that might violate Gmail's EULA, I won't post it.